tried to do nothing today
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cornerofmadnessOther than work on Link and finish a book (I've finished neither at this point). My brother came up for an hour or so to reclaim his tablet from me. Other than dad's passive agressive shit, it was a quiet day.
Today was the first day of the workshops, meaning I had to be up at 530 to get to the mirage by 630. Yuck. The interesting thing about this was when I was still living with ELD in FL, Mom was trying to help by looking at job ads. 'You need to get this job!' Why? 'It's a brand new school opening in Henderson NV!' Mom, WTF would I want to go to NV for? I hate heat and I hate the desert. 'It's just outside of Las Vegas. I could come live with you.' Mom, you aren't selling this place.
Needless to say, I didn't even apply because the school was brand new and I had never taught before. It would have been a waste of time. They needed experience. Upon arrival, I had two thoughts, wow, they get to do cadavers. COOL! And I would have been one of those because the ugliness of this place would have driven me to suicide. Sorry Nevada State College, you're in a 500 acre swatch of rocky desert that's unending brown. Shudders. Right now it's only two building big (and after 11 years, it's surprising it hasn't grown more since they have a population bigger than Rio) and one was a former vitamin factory.
The breakfast they served up was delicious. I've never had dry honey before. It went all over my Greek yogurt and oatmeal. Got to listen to the Mayor of Henderson and the college Provost. The workshops are really the highlight of this conference. The seminar has new ideas but not necessarily applicable to classroom, in fact rarely do (this year was an exception), but you get to meet all the publishers and other vendors. The workshops are all directly relatable to the classroom, which is great.
I attended one from the Australian crew (we had a huge international crew this year, Australia, Nigeria, Denmark, not including the Canadians since this is usually a joint America-Canada group). They were dealing with capstone courses, though some of what they do in their last year we want to try earlier. I need to email her to get her pdfs. The next was on livening up histology. Anything could help there. She had ideas that work across the various classes. Lunch was good.
The third class was a let down, most of the 'help' was less than 10 minutes of a 60 minute lecture. The rest was all the ridiculous crap coming down from above (thanks for nothing, Obama, your plan is just like Bush's, well meaning but inane. It's not going to work.) which my school already covered (and I'm betting everyone else's has, too). After that, I decided to skip the one on endocrine games because I was depressed by this class and let's face it, my two coworkers who teach A&P will not do any of this.
I went to Anatomia Italiana. It's going to be a Haps-I course that includes going to Italy for 2 weeks. I AM going to look into funding to go to this. It was the intersection of art, science and history. He was using renaissance art, legitimate textbooks versus Leonardo and Michelangelo. Did they do illegal dissections (yes, I may come back to this at a later date). He showed the wax anatomical models including the Wax Venuses. Amazing work. You can stand at the same lecture podium as Galileo on this trip. I could go on and on but instead, let me share this link for the
wax venuses and more wax venuses . Then the bus forgot to pick people up in my building.
After dinner at Ming's Table (delicious sizzling beef in black bean sauce), mom and I went to the Quad to see Frank Marino's Divas. An hour and a half of female impersonators. The show has been running for 28 years. It was fantastic and we had surprise visits from some of RuPaul's Drag Queens and one scripted visit from Shantelle, also from that show. She was in a steampunkish gown. Loved it. It was a lot of fun.
Forgot this last night from the wax museum -
Bon Jovi's hand print is the same size as mine 0_o
Harrah's at night, I was 11 floors up in this.
the Mirage volcano as seen from my balcony
Mirage finale, when you're down there, the heat from this is incredible
Nevada State College, the new building
The profs trekking about a half mile to the original vitamin factory part and I'm trekking after them. Notice none of us are using the looping way out of the way sidewalks and are all cutting across the deserty bits. There was a little cliff to slide down at the other end...
but we did find creosote in bloom.
On the whole I was far too far away and in the dark, my camera translates movement into long squiggly stuff so my Divas shots aren't the best. Here are the better ones.
Cher, and I include this more for the costumes of her dancers because sans police hat and knee pads these are the exact outfits I had just written poor Kaleo in earlier in the day while bored at one workshop.
mostly i just liked the play of light in this pic of Lady Gaga
Shantelle, seriously I want her dress
the finale. They're all pointing to Frank Marino as Joan Rivers and he was funny. I should have half the gowns this man has.
I DO have video. I just need to see if it works.
ETA- I forgot to put in this writing post of mine. It also has some other links to writing related things I think you'll enjoy. click here
Today was the first day of the workshops, meaning I had to be up at 530 to get to the mirage by 630. Yuck. The interesting thing about this was when I was still living with ELD in FL, Mom was trying to help by looking at job ads. 'You need to get this job!' Why? 'It's a brand new school opening in Henderson NV!' Mom, WTF would I want to go to NV for? I hate heat and I hate the desert. 'It's just outside of Las Vegas. I could come live with you.' Mom, you aren't selling this place.
Needless to say, I didn't even apply because the school was brand new and I had never taught before. It would have been a waste of time. They needed experience. Upon arrival, I had two thoughts, wow, they get to do cadavers. COOL! And I would have been one of those because the ugliness of this place would have driven me to suicide. Sorry Nevada State College, you're in a 500 acre swatch of rocky desert that's unending brown. Shudders. Right now it's only two building big (and after 11 years, it's surprising it hasn't grown more since they have a population bigger than Rio) and one was a former vitamin factory.
The breakfast they served up was delicious. I've never had dry honey before. It went all over my Greek yogurt and oatmeal. Got to listen to the Mayor of Henderson and the college Provost. The workshops are really the highlight of this conference. The seminar has new ideas but not necessarily applicable to classroom, in fact rarely do (this year was an exception), but you get to meet all the publishers and other vendors. The workshops are all directly relatable to the classroom, which is great.
I attended one from the Australian crew (we had a huge international crew this year, Australia, Nigeria, Denmark, not including the Canadians since this is usually a joint America-Canada group). They were dealing with capstone courses, though some of what they do in their last year we want to try earlier. I need to email her to get her pdfs. The next was on livening up histology. Anything could help there. She had ideas that work across the various classes. Lunch was good.
The third class was a let down, most of the 'help' was less than 10 minutes of a 60 minute lecture. The rest was all the ridiculous crap coming down from above (thanks for nothing, Obama, your plan is just like Bush's, well meaning but inane. It's not going to work.) which my school already covered (and I'm betting everyone else's has, too). After that, I decided to skip the one on endocrine games because I was depressed by this class and let's face it, my two coworkers who teach A&P will not do any of this.
I went to Anatomia Italiana. It's going to be a Haps-I course that includes going to Italy for 2 weeks. I AM going to look into funding to go to this. It was the intersection of art, science and history. He was using renaissance art, legitimate textbooks versus Leonardo and Michelangelo. Did they do illegal dissections (yes, I may come back to this at a later date). He showed the wax anatomical models including the Wax Venuses. Amazing work. You can stand at the same lecture podium as Galileo on this trip. I could go on and on but instead, let me share this link for the
wax venuses and more wax venuses . Then the bus forgot to pick people up in my building.
After dinner at Ming's Table (delicious sizzling beef in black bean sauce), mom and I went to the Quad to see Frank Marino's Divas. An hour and a half of female impersonators. The show has been running for 28 years. It was fantastic and we had surprise visits from some of RuPaul's Drag Queens and one scripted visit from Shantelle, also from that show. She was in a steampunkish gown. Loved it. It was a lot of fun.
Forgot this last night from the wax museum -
Bon Jovi's hand print is the same size as mine 0_o
Harrah's at night, I was 11 floors up in this.
the Mirage volcano as seen from my balcony
Mirage finale, when you're down there, the heat from this is incredible
Nevada State College, the new building
The profs trekking about a half mile to the original vitamin factory part and I'm trekking after them. Notice none of us are using the looping way out of the way sidewalks and are all cutting across the deserty bits. There was a little cliff to slide down at the other end...
but we did find creosote in bloom.On the whole I was far too far away and in the dark, my camera translates movement into long squiggly stuff so my Divas shots aren't the best. Here are the better ones.
Cher, and I include this more for the costumes of her dancers because sans police hat and knee pads these are the exact outfits I had just written poor Kaleo in earlier in the day while bored at one workshop.
mostly i just liked the play of light in this pic of Lady Gaga
Shantelle, seriously I want her dress
the finale. They're all pointing to Frank Marino as Joan Rivers and he was funny. I should have half the gowns this man has.I DO have video. I just need to see if it works.
ETA- I forgot to put in this writing post of mine. It also has some other links to writing related things I think you'll enjoy. click here
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Date: 2013-06-05 01:52 am (UTC)The Divas show looks like so much fun.
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Date: 2013-06-05 03:42 am (UTC)It was
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Date: 2013-06-05 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 03:38 am (UTC)they are. I still can't believe they look like that and are nearly 300 years old
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Date: 2013-06-06 04:30 am (UTC)One wonders if a Pygmalian type story could be based off of that.
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Date: 2013-06-06 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-08 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-08 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-09 12:26 am (UTC)I need to work on my Big Bang.
Oh, and you'll need to send me your opening chapters again, as they disappeared in the crash.
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Date: 2013-06-09 04:07 am (UTC)I need to work on my slash fest
will do.
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Date: 2013-06-09 02:11 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah, I need to do that. And my zombie fest.
I got them.
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Date: 2013-06-09 02:17 pm (UTC)cool
love the icon
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Date: 2013-06-09 03:14 pm (UTC)Thrifthorror's most recent post. :D
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Date: 2013-06-09 03:32 pm (UTC)snort
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Date: 2013-06-09 10:30 pm (UTC)I got Rogue shaved down today; she's happy.
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Date: 2013-06-10 01:44 am (UTC)I bet she is. I should wash Kanda
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Date: 2013-06-12 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-12 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 03:31 am (UTC)When I was TDY in Tucson, I was amazed that the maid would come into my room in the VOQ in the morning and when I'd get back from the hospital, it was dusty all over again. I don't think deserts are for me
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Date: 2013-06-05 02:46 am (UTC)I have NEVER figured out why people design walkways on campuses here in the southwest to meander. NO ONE WANTS TO MEANDER. We want shortest, shadiest distance between two points. (With our office complex in Tempe, I always figured it was because they opted for a Chicago-based architecture firm...)
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Date: 2013-06-05 03:23 am (UTC)I'm sure rock of ages would be good too
no kidding. This one looped around the first building up the hill and down the other side to the other building. What was that about? the scenic look of brown dirt?
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Date: 2013-06-05 03:45 am (UTC)Now, now, some of us LIKE the desert, you know. :) It's probably beautiful November - April.
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Date: 2013-06-05 03:52 am (UTC)haha, I should hope the locals like it at any rate. It's definitely not me
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Date: 2013-06-06 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 02:06 pm (UTC)